Tilar J. Mazzeo is the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestselling author of books that include The Widow Clicquot, The Secret of Chanel No. 5, and Hotel on the Place Vendôme. She also writes on food and wine for the mainstream press, and her work has appeared in venues such as Food & Wine and in her Back-Lane Wineries guidebook series (Ten Speed Press). Her course on creative nonfiction (Great Courses), featured as in-flight viewing content on Virgin America airlines, is widely distributed and has made her a nationally prominent teacher of writing in nonfiction genres. The Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English at Colby College, she divides her time among coastal Maine, New York City, and Saanichton, British Columbia, where she lives with her husband and stepchildren.
Praise for Irena's Children "[An] incredible account."--The New
York Times Book Review
"Ms. Mazzeo, author of the bestselling The Widow Clicquot, draws
from interviews with Sendler's daughter and children she saved to
offer new details on Sendler's early life and her remarkable
undertaking during World War II."--The Wall Street Journal
"Irena's Children weaves a fascinating narrative of a devastated
city, Nazi depravity, and the extraordinary moral and physical
courage of those who chose to fight inhumanity with compassion.
This is a book that stays with you long after you've turned the
last page."--Chaya Deitsch, author of Here and There: Leaving
Hasidism, Keeping My Family
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